❓ Minister Grylls releases the 2012-13 Royalties for Regions progress report, highlighting $4.2 billion allocated to over 3,500 regional development projects and thanking key contributors as he prepares to leave his ministerial role.
AnsweredQoN 914Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
ROYALTIES FOR REGIONS — PROGRESS REPORT
2012–13
914. Ms M.J. DAVIES to the Minister for
Regional Development:
I understand the ''Royalties
for Regions: Progress Report July 2012–June 2013'' is being
released today. Can the minister please outline what the report contains and
some of the projects that are transforming our regions and creating a lasting
legacy for generations of Western Australians to come?
2012–13
914. Ms M.J. DAVIES to the Minister for
Regional Development:
I understand the ''Royalties
for Regions: Progress Report July 2012–June 2013'' is being
released today. Can the minister please outline what the report contains and
some of the projects that are transforming our regions and creating a lasting
legacy for generations of Western Australians to come?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Central
Wheatbelt for the question and congratulate her on her soon-to-be accession
into the ministry.
Today is my last question time on
the front bench of the Liberal‑National government, and it gives me great
pleasure to release the 2012–13 progress report for royalties for
regions.
Mr
M.P. Murray interjected.
Mr
B.J. GRYLLS : It is much bigger than a passport!
The progress report was prepared by
the Department of Regional Development. It is the fifth progress report on
royalties for regions expenditure and details all the projects funded by
royalties for regions from September 2008 until June 2013. In that time, royalties
for regions —
Mr
M.P. Murray : Is this your last hurrah?
Mr B.J. GRYLLS :
Yes, it is, and my last hurrah includes mentioning to the Parliament that $4.2 billion
has been allocated to regional development in Western Australia by the Liberal–National
government for more than 3 500 projects that cover the length and breadth of
the state. Pilbara Cities is a program that is transforming the communities of
the Pilbara from dusty mining towns with $4 000 a week rents into modern,
vibrant cities of the future. The Ord development, which was talked about for
40 years, has now been delivered by the Liberal–National government.
The Gascoyne revitalisation plan in the midwest is at last investing in the
future potential of the midwest and Gascoyne region, giving it an opportunity
to grow. The Southern Inland Health Initiative is upgrading regional medical
facilities, recruiting doctors where they did not previously exist and rolling
out telehealth to regional Western Australia, providing people with emergency physicians
in their local community online—a real innovation being led by the
Liberal–National government. I am happy to announce that we have
completed 75 of the 113 mobile phone towers across regional Western Australia,
so that regional Western Australians can stay in touch.
But we have smaller projects as well as those bigger ones.
The Foodbank school breakfast program delivered 29 500 free breakfasts in
regional schools during the 2012 school year. The Regional Men's Health
Initiative is helping raise awareness of men's health issues, expanding
the Clontarf program has delivered better education programs for young
Aboriginal students, and more than 47 000 regional age pensioners have a $500
fuel card for taxis and fuel.
I thank the Western Australian Regional Development Trust,
the Regional Development Council, the commissions and the Department of
Regional Development for their roles in implementing the programs. The progress
report is available online, and I encourage members to take a look. It gives me
great pleasure to table the 2012–13 royalties for regions report.
[See paper 1262.]
Mr B.J. GRYLLS :
Before I sit down, I thank the Premier for the opportunity to serve the people
of Western Australia in his cabinet. I urge him to continue building and developing
our great state. I acknowledge my ministerial team for their enormous
contribution to what was just an idea in 2008, and is now the most
comprehensive regional development program in the nation.
Government members: Hear, hear!
Mr
B.J. GRYLLS : I make special mention of Doug Cunningham, who has worked
shoulder to shoulder with me since 2005 to change the way we do politics in
regional Western Australia. I thank my family in the Speaker's gallery:
Susan and the Grylls boys—Tom, Oliver, who is celebrating his fourth
birthday today, and Jack. We all look forward to our next adventure in the
Pilbara, helping Karratha to grow to reach its city status. Finally, best of
luck to Terry and Mia as they steer the good ship Nationals into the future. I
will be giving them all the encouragement I can from a few seats further back.
Thank you, Mr Speaker.
[Applause.]
Wheatbelt for the question and congratulate her on her soon-to-be accession
into the ministry.
Today is my last question time on
the front bench of the Liberal‑National government, and it gives me great
pleasure to release the 2012–13 progress report for royalties for
regions.
Mr
M.P. Murray interjected.
Mr
B.J. GRYLLS : It is much bigger than a passport!
The progress report was prepared by
the Department of Regional Development. It is the fifth progress report on
royalties for regions expenditure and details all the projects funded by
royalties for regions from September 2008 until June 2013. In that time, royalties
for regions —
Mr
M.P. Murray : Is this your last hurrah?
Mr B.J. GRYLLS :
Yes, it is, and my last hurrah includes mentioning to the Parliament that $4.2 billion
has been allocated to regional development in Western Australia by the Liberal–National
government for more than 3 500 projects that cover the length and breadth of
the state. Pilbara Cities is a program that is transforming the communities of
the Pilbara from dusty mining towns with $4 000 a week rents into modern,
vibrant cities of the future. The Ord development, which was talked about for
40 years, has now been delivered by the Liberal–National government.
The Gascoyne revitalisation plan in the midwest is at last investing in the
future potential of the midwest and Gascoyne region, giving it an opportunity
to grow. The Southern Inland Health Initiative is upgrading regional medical
facilities, recruiting doctors where they did not previously exist and rolling
out telehealth to regional Western Australia, providing people with emergency physicians
in their local community online—a real innovation being led by the
Liberal–National government. I am happy to announce that we have
completed 75 of the 113 mobile phone towers across regional Western Australia,
so that regional Western Australians can stay in touch.
But we have smaller projects as well as those bigger ones.
The Foodbank school breakfast program delivered 29 500 free breakfasts in
regional schools during the 2012 school year. The Regional Men's Health
Initiative is helping raise awareness of men's health issues, expanding
the Clontarf program has delivered better education programs for young
Aboriginal students, and more than 47 000 regional age pensioners have a $500
fuel card for taxis and fuel.
I thank the Western Australian Regional Development Trust,
the Regional Development Council, the commissions and the Department of
Regional Development for their roles in implementing the programs. The progress
report is available online, and I encourage members to take a look. It gives me
great pleasure to table the 2012–13 royalties for regions report.
[See paper 1262.]
Mr B.J. GRYLLS :
Before I sit down, I thank the Premier for the opportunity to serve the people
of Western Australia in his cabinet. I urge him to continue building and developing
our great state. I acknowledge my ministerial team for their enormous
contribution to what was just an idea in 2008, and is now the most
comprehensive regional development program in the nation.
Government members: Hear, hear!
Mr
B.J. GRYLLS : I make special mention of Doug Cunningham, who has worked
shoulder to shoulder with me since 2005 to change the way we do politics in
regional Western Australia. I thank my family in the Speaker's gallery:
Susan and the Grylls boys—Tom, Oliver, who is celebrating his fourth
birthday today, and Jack. We all look forward to our next adventure in the
Pilbara, helping Karratha to grow to reach its city status. Finally, best of
luck to Terry and Mia as they steer the good ship Nationals into the future. I
will be giving them all the encouragement I can from a few seats further back.
Thank you, Mr Speaker.
[Applause.]
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